عنوان

From falling bodies to radio waves :

(Number (ISBN

0486458083

(Number (ISBN

9780486458083

Number

b560531

Title Proper

From falling bodies to radio waves :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

classical physicists and their discoveries

First Statement of Responsibility

Emilio Segrè.

Edition Statement

Dover ed

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Mineola, N.Y.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Dover Publications

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series Title

Dover books on physics.

Text of Note

Originally published: New York : W.H. Freeman, ©1984.

Text of Note

A whimsical prelude --; The founding fathers : Galileo and Huygens --; The magic mountain : Newton --; What is light? --; Electricity : from thunder to motors and waves --; Heat :substance, vibrations, and motion --; Kinetic theory : the beginning of the unraveling of the structure of matter --; Appendixes. Newton's mathematical principles (Section II) : the determination of centripetal forces ; Newton's mathematical principles (Section III) : the motion of bodies in eccentric conic sections ; Kepler's laws in modern standard deviation ; Kirchhoff's laws in modern standard derivation ; Kirchhoff's law on heat exchange ; The arguments of the "Newton of electricity" ; The measurement of the ratio of electrostatic to electromagnetic units of charge and the velocity of light ; Plane waves from Maxwell's equations ; The influence of pressure on the melting point of ice ; The absolute scale of temperature and the gas thermometer ; Maxwell's distribution of velocities of molecules in his own words ; Boltzmann's epitaph ; The essentials of Boltzmann's H-theorem ; Dilemmas posed by the equipartition of energy ; The marvelous equation of van der Wals and Clausius' virial theorem.

Physicists -- Biography.

Physicists.

Physics -- History.

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Book number

Emilio Segrè.

Emilio Segrè

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